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W. A. 0. OAKS. APPLE PARER AND GORER.

No. 397,871. Patented Feb. 12, 1889.

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VII/A N. PETERS, PhumLilhu n her. Wuhinglon. D. C.

Units STATES ATENT Orricn.

WILLIAM A. OAKS, OF ANTRIM, NElV HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGFOR TO THE GOODELL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

APPLE PARER AND CORE-1R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 897,871, dated February 12, 1889.

Application filed August 13, 1888. serial No. 282,575. (No model.)

To (LU whom it may con/c0711 Be it known that I, \VILLIAM A. O. OAKS, of Antrim, county of Hillsborough, State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Fruit or Apple Parers and Oorers, of which the following description, in connect-ion with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve and simplify the apple-parer described in United States Patent No. 379,324, granted to me March 13, 1888,110 which reference may be had. The knife-carriage described in the said patent is moved in one direction by a pinion engaging a rack 011 the said carriage, but the carriage has a quick return movement by or through a cam-shaped link acted upon by a pin carried by a crank.

One object of this invention is to do entirely away with the rack for moving the said carriage and actuate the latter in both directions of its traverse positively by means of a cam and cam-lever, the said cam and cam-leverbeing so shaped as to give a quick return movement to the knife-carriage, as will be described.

Another feature of this invention relates to the means employed for actuating the pusholf rods locating at the center of the rotating forks. l have also made adjustable the plate for vibrating the arm carrying the corer.

My invention consists, essentially, in the combination, with a rotary fork for holding the fruit or apple to be pared and a knife and knife-carriage, of a cam and cam-lever to impart to the said carriage both itsbackward and forward motions, but at different rates of speed, substantially as will be described.

Other features of my invention will be further described in the specification and pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

ficient portion of a fruit-paring machine to enable my invention to be understood; Fig. 1 2, a partial rear side viewof the machine' shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a detail of the camwheel and the lever actuated by it to operate 3 Fig. A is a detail of part of Q the push-off rods. the frame-work and knife-carrying carriage and the devices for lifting the paring-knife while the apple is being applied. Fig. 5 is table to which its shank is pivoted. Fig. 6 is a plan view of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a detail of the rack-bar by which the turn-table is rotated. Fig. 8 is a detail showing the lower end of the knock-off lever, and Fig. 9 is a detail of the flanged gear wheel and parts co-operating with it.

The frame-work A A A contains a shaft, O, having a pinion, f, and a spur-gear,D. The gear f engages a spur-wheel, F, having at one side a notched or cam-shaped flange, F and a pin, f which co-operates with a threepronged plate or cam, K, on a shaft, K the said spur-wheel and its flange and pin producing an intermitting rotation of the shaft K and the fork-carrying head I, the latter in practice having three forks, I, the shafts of which are extended through bearings in the said head and have attached to their rear ends like pinions, h, which in the step-by-step rotation of the head I are brought successively in engagement with the fork-rotating pinion H at the end of a shaft, G, having fast on it a pinion, g, which is engaged by the spurwheel D, thus rotating the shaft G. Each fork and fork-shaft and pinion 71 has extended centrally through it a push-off rod, a, free to slide longitudinally therein and actuated in one direction by the act of pushing the fruit to be pared upon the tines of the fork.

The lever (marked 8) earryin g the knife for paring the fruit is pivoted by a horizontal pivot, 12, on a turn-table, 13, free to turn about a vertical pivot, 14:, of the knife-carrying carriage R, and the knife-carrying lever has a heel, 8 (see Fig. 5,) and is acted upon by a spring, s. The turn-table has a series of gear-teeth, 15, which engage teeth 16 of a rack made at the rear edge of the stationary horizontal bar, A (see Fig. 7,) so that the turn-table is partially rotated in one and then in an opposite direction at each forward and backward movement, respectively, of the carriage R on its guide-rods R R The slicer WV is connected to the sliding knife-carriage, and the said carriage has pivoted on it the arm T, to which is attached the corer t the arm T having a projection, 25', act-ed upon by the plate V, attached to the l frame-work to keep the corer in horizontal l position while the paring-knife is traveling a side elevation of a paring-knife and turnabout the fruit being pared and the corer is entering the fruit or apple just behind the slicer. The projection a of the frame acts against the projection t and turns the lever T to withdraw the eorer from the apple. The arm l is pivoted to the :t'rame-work and notched at its end to engage the tipping lever 11 (see Fig. 4 pivoted at y, and causes the broad end, f ol. the said lever to act against the projection s ol' the shank of the paringknife to turn the said lever and hold back the pari n g-knii'e-carryi n g lever while the fruit being applied to the fork. The gear I) engages and rotates the pinion 6, fast on the shaft E, having a worm, P.

The parts so far described are all substantially: s shown in my patent, No. 379,324, dated March 13, 1888, and need not be herein more fully described.

The worm P engages a worm-gear, 0, fast on a short shaft, a having fast to its opposite end a crank arm or cam, 11', having a pin, 1), and a projection, 3, the said arm or cam in its rotation moving the cam-lever l)". The cam-lever I)" and arm .9 are shown as in about the center of the paring movement. The lever Z)" is moved in the direction of the arrow 40, Fig. (its paring movement,) first by the v action of the projection 3 of the cam or crank l) on the pin t, the said projection continuing to so move the lever b" until the pin 1) meets the said lever, as shown in Fig. i, when the pin b acting against the curved inner side of the lever b", completes the paring movement, such movement being completed as the pin 17 arrives at the point 43. As soon as the pin 79 reaches the point i zhit commences to reverse the movement of the lever b and carriage R, moving the same very rapidly, or at a faster speed until the pin 11 passes the high point 5, at which instant the projection 3 catches the pin 4-. The cam-levt-u'b, having the irregular cam-slot and moved positively but at diit'erent speeds as it is moved in one and then in the opposite direction, is connected by link 7 to a portion of the lnlife-carriage. In this way and by the devices described both movements of the carriage are derived from the arm or cam Z) and the cam-lever b", and the return movement of the knife-carriage is made very quick as compared with the paring movement of the carriage.

The plate V is connected to the frame-work by screws in slots in the said plate, so that the said plate is made adjustable to compensate for wear between it and the projection t, and thus avoid any tendency of the eorel' to run up or down.

The push-oil rods during the rotation ol? the head I carrying the forks are broughtin succession opposite the lower inclined face, 22, ot a wedge, a, at the lower end oi a lever, a, pivoted at 1.1%, and acted upon by a cam projection, I), carried at the side of the gearwheel h, the said lever a being acted upon. by the said cam U to move the said lever and cause it to hasten the action of the push-oft rods at the propertiines. I have also provided the carriage with an adj ustz'tble clampingplate, 6, preferably a steel plate, attached to the carriage by screws 24, the free end the plate being interposed between the head of the bolt 25 and the hub of the arm T, the said bolt serving as the i'ulerum for the said arm.

'lightening the bolt com pcnsates for an y wear of the hub of the arm 'l, for if the hub wears and is not held steadily the corer is liable to be diverted laterally from its straight course and will hit the fork or split the Fruit.

I claim 1. In a fruit-parer, a fork, a paring-knife, and kni fe-carriage, combi ned. with the pi voi ed slotted cam-lever b" and a link, means to connect it with the knife-carriage, and with an arm or cam, Z), having a projection to act on the said cam-lever to move the lmife-carriage positively in both directions of its movement, the return movement being the faster, substantially as described.

2. The rotating fork and the push-ol't' rod therein, combined with the lever a, having an inclined surface, as a, adapted to come into contact with the end of the push-oft rod, and a cam to move the said lever and hasten the action of the rod, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have sign ed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

IVI'L'LIAM A. (I. OAKS,

'itnesses:

II. A. I-IURLIN, U. ABBOTT. 

